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GIGABYTE 8 Series Motherboards

GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards support the latest 4th Generation Intel® Core™ processors, bringing together a unique blend of features and technologies that offer the absolute ultimate platform for your next PC build. From high current capable digital power delivery, performance-enhancing caching technologies, exclusive high-end audio features, advanced networking and device charging, gold-plated hardware connectors and of course, killer good looks, GIGABYTE 8 series motherboards are in a class of their own.

Next Gen Intel® 8 Series Platform
The latest Intel 8 Series platform offers significant improvements in performance and power consumption with the latest 4th generation Intel® Core™ processors and Intel® Z87 chipsets. As well as a boost in overall productivity, the latest HD4600 Intel® processor graphics provide native 4K resolution playback over standard HDMI connectivity, with significantly higher frame rates in the latest DX11 3D game titles.

Multi-Graphics Support

AMD CrossFire™ delivers the ultimate graphics performance for gaming enthusiasts who demand the highest frame rates without compromising on resolution.

HDMI™ - The Next Generation Multimedia Interface

HDMI™ is a High-Definition Multimedia Interface which provides up to 5Gbps video transmitting bandwidth and 8-channel high quality audio all through a single cable. Able to transmit superior, uncompressed digital video and audio, HDMI™ ensures the crispest rendering of digital content up to 1080p without the quality losses associated with analog interfaces and their digital-to-analog conversion. In addition, HDMI™ is compatible with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), allowing the playback of Blu-ray/HD DVD and other protected media content.

DVI Support

Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video interface standard designed for carrying uncompressed digital video data and to maximize the visual quality of digital display devices, such as LCD monitors, digital projectors, and more. In addition, the DVI interface is compatible with HDCP.

GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 5 Plus

GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 5 Plus debuts on GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards, with a range of features and component choices that provide record-breaking performance, cool and efficient operation and extended motherboard lifespan.

Ultra Cool

All New Heat Sink Design
GIGABYTE motherboards feature new heatsink designs that offer uncompromisingly efficient cooling on key areas of the motherboard including the PWM area and chipset (PCH). GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards offer both passive, active and water cooling support of the crucial PWM area so even the most aggressive and extreme configurations will be kept well within optimal thermal parameters.

Ultra Performance

IR® Digital CPU Power Design

GIGABYTE motherboards use industry-leading PWM controllers and PowIRstage™ ICs and from International Rectifier®. These components are 100% digital, offering incredible precision in delivering power to your 4th Generation Intel® processor. Designed from the ground up to complement each other, these industry-leading PWM controllers and PowIRstage™ ICs from IR® are optimized for cool and efficient operation, allowing users to get the absolute maximum performance from their next PC build.

Ultra Safe

GIGABYTE UEFI DualBIOS™

GIGABYTE motherboards feature GIGABYTE DualBIOS™, an exclusive technology from GIGABYTE that protects arguably one of your PC's most crucial components, the BIOS. GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ means that your motherboard has both a "Main BIOS" and a "Backup BIOS," making users protected from BIOS failure due to virus attack, hardware malfunction, improper OC settings or power failure during the update process.

Ultra USB 3+

10 USB 3.0 Ports

GIGABYTE motherboards offer more high speed connectivity than ever before, packing up to 10 USB 3.0 ports per board. Each of these 10 USB 3.0 ports are also provided with a dedicated fuse, ensuring that an unexpected malfunction on one port, will affect only that port, isolating potential damage and protecting other connected devices.

High ESD Protection for USB and LAN (USB 3.0 only)

GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards raise the bar in terms of protecting your system, providing advanced electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for both your Ethernet LAN and USB ports, both common sources of ESD-related failures. Each LAN and USB port is paired with a dedicated protection filter that can withstand high electrostatic discharges, protecting your system from common electrical surges and even direct lighting strikes.

Gold-Plated CPU Socket

GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards come equipped with a gold plated CPU socket, which means that enthusiasts can enjoy absolute reliability and longevity for the CPU socket overtime, without having any concerns about corroded pins and bad contacts.

One Fuse per USB Port

On GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards, each USB port has its own dedicated power fuse that prevents unwanted USB port failure, helping to safeguard your important data during transfers.

Intel® Gigabit LAN

The latest GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards come equipped with Intel® Gigabit LAN networking, a popular choice with gamers that features several performance-enhancing features such as advanced interrupt handling to help reduce CPU overhead and Jumbo Frame support for extra large data packets.

GIGABYTE OPT Fan Support

Many of today's 3rd party water cooling systems require CPU fan power support for both the cooling fan and the water pump. GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards feature OPT fan support, an additional CPU fan pin header that can be used to connect a water pump and configured for continuous full speed operation. The OPT Fan is also useful for high performance coolers employing two fans.

GIGABYTE UEFI DualBIOS™

Take control of how your BIOS looks and feels with a fully customizable UI

For the first time ever, overclockers can adjust CPU clock, frequency and voltage settings in real-time within BIOS. This massively saves time, allowing users to find optimal settings without having to reboot.

GIGABYTE App Center

GIGABYTE App Center gives you easy access to wealth of GIGABYTE apps that help you get the most from your GIGABYTE motherboard. Using a simple, unified user interface, the GIGABYTE App Center allows you to launch all GIGABYTE apps installed on your system.

GIGABYTE EasyTune

Simple and easy-to-use interface that allows users to fine-tune their system settings

Adjust system and memory clocks and voltages in a Windows environment

System-related information display without the need to install additional software

GIGABYTE Smart Fan 2

As well as offering more system fans than ever before, GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards feature updated and improved CPU and system fan speed controls, with individual airflow and speed settings available via a dedicated digital controller. GIGABYTE Smart Fan 2 allows you to configure CPU fans and system fans.

GIGABYTE @BIOS

The new and updated GIGABYTE @BIOS app allows you to update your system's BIOS from within Windows using a simple and slick graphical user interface by automatically downloading the latest version from the GIGABYTE servers.

Physical Spec

Form Factor

ATX

Dimensions (W x L)

12" x 8.86"

Power Pin

24 Pin

Features

Features

Thermal: Chipset + MOS heatsink

4 Digital CPU VRM phase

Cross Fire X Support

DuaL BIOS (64Mx2)

Quick Info

WarrantyBeyond any applicable Newegg return policy, this item is warranted independently by the product's Manufacturer or a Third party. Below is a summary provided for convenience only and may not be accurate or current.
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Cons: Not a TRUE "Ultra-Durable" as it lacks the 2oz. copper PCB and other construction features of that series.Didn't ship w/latest BIOS."SYS FAN2" failed after about 4 months.No provision for overclocking "on-the-fly" — have to re-boot; (you need to step up to their "SOC" series for that).

Other Thoughts: This is a well-designed (if slightly underbuilt) MoBo, delivering plenty of feature for relatively short money.

I've had nothing but good luck with Gigabyte "Ultra-Durable"s...until now. Aside from having to flash my BIOS (to F6 or better in order to POST with Haswell Refresh, which I admit is not Gigabyte's fault), everything was perfect for about 4 months. Then the "SYS2 FAN" header suddenly and mysteriously failed — (still reads tach; just doesn't deliver power). It's not a huge deal, but a disappointment nonetheless. I'm wondering if it's worth the time to RMA it — (fearful that it'll be weeks before I see a replacement). So, minus one star for that; otherwise, I'd have given it four.

Other than that, though, it's been a good board, in terms of both performance and reliability, although it's still not a true member of the "Ultra-Durable" series, (despite saying so on the box). Apparently, Gigabyte now calls any MoBo with solid polymer caps an Ultra-Durable, even if they aren't the Japanese "black caps" and even if it doesn't have the 2oz. copper PC board, resulting in TWO different levels of "Ultra-Durable": those that have the "UD"(#) suffix, and those that just have the "D"(#) suffix, (which should just be called "Durable" to distinguish them from the real Ultra-Durables.

Rating: 1/5Update since last review

Cons: Board started going insane at the audio level with the worst kind of BSOD/driver freezing you could imagine. After dozens of hours wasted troubleshooting the only solution is to disable the onboard audio and use the HDMI audio from my video card. I'm afraid this board is going to kill all the components in it.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your GIGABYTE product. Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyteusa.com with the case number 112827 in the e-mail subject line. We will provide personalized service and analysis to help solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact number, and we will contact you.

Rating: 1/5Random Freezes

Cons: I have been getting random system freezes since I bought this board a year ago.

I have run memory tests and there are no issues with my memory. I have had multiple event logs saying that my USB ports haven't started when I boot up. There's also a CDROM event log that it hasn't booted properly (whatever that means). I had a blue screen within a week of buying the board, and since then I have had about 10 random freezes/lockups over a year, but not bluescreens. The mouse and keyboard lose power when the freeze happens, and one of my monitors (VGA in mobo) says it can't display the video mode right when if freezes. The only way to reboot is to hard reset the power, which I HATE doing.

My system stays cool, so that's not the issue.

It has been a headache and nightmare, because there's no trigger for when these happen. I can play games for hours (literally 8 hours) or days before the freeze happens again. I have also had freezes as the system sits on idle, no intense programs running. (which also makes me hint towards the motherboard being the issue)

All I want is a stable system that I can rely on, and I have reason to believe that it's because of the motherboard that I'm having these issues.

Other Thoughts: Don't ever buy anything when it's brand new on the market, always wait until there are tons of reviews on an item. I've learned my lesson with this mobo...

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your GIGABYTE product. Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyteusa.com with the case number 111932 in the e-mail subject line. We will provide personalized service and analysis to help solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact number, and we will contact you.

Rating: 5/5No Issues Here

Pros: I've had this board a little over a year. I bought it when Haswell was fairly new. I may be running a different BIOS version than all of those complaining of the BSOD's, but I haven't experienced any of these issues. The stock BIOS provides plenty of configuration and overclockability.

Rating: 1/5Crashes constantly

Cons: Even with only 2 sticks of RAM, this motherboard is unstable. I get frequent BSODs on Windows 7, sometimes shortly after boot-up, sometimes when installing Windows updates, and often when the system is not under any load and is sitting at the desktop without any applications running.

I thought maybe my install was corrupt, so I tried reinstalling Windows, and I got a BSOD during the OS load. After 3 or 4 tries, I got Windows reloaded, but the instability remains.

I have tried all the common fixes such as clocking my 1600 MHz ram down to 1333, increasing its voltage, disabling the C3 and C6 states in the BIOS. This has not worked. I ran Memtest x86, and after 8 passes it did not detect and RAM errors.

Other Thoughts: I'm severely disappointed, as I have been very pleased with Gigabyte's products in the past. It seems that this board is a dud.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your GIGABYTE product. Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyteusa.com with the case number 110930 in the e-mail subject line. We will provide personalized service and analysis to help solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact number, and we will contact you.

Rating: 5/5Works Just Fine

Pros: Works just fine. Easy to work with, easy to install, sleek-looking BIOS. I didn't discover Gigabyte's App Center and EasyTune until yesterday, despite having the board up and running since last Fall. I'm of the mind that when it comes to BIOS, if it works then leave it alone, but the BiosUpdate feature in AppCenter takes all the guesswork out of getting the right file from the support website. Upgraded to F6, and it went without a hitch. Also found a lot of driver updates available that I didn't know about.

Cons: None that I've found.

Other Thoughts: It's a good general use board that is up to the task for heavy duty use when you need it. I note the some of the reviews are pretty awful, and honestly had I read them before choosing a main board I would probably have passed on this one. I used it for my first build, and wanted to replicate for the most part the components in one of Carey Holzman's YouTube build videos (in case I ran into trouble, I could use his video as a reference). No issues putting it all together. The only point of note is that the BIOS defaults to 1333 for SDRAM, but the BIOS adjustment to 1600 is simple. It's been standing up to daily use for 8 months or so; we'll see in a couple years how it functions.

Rating: 4/5Nice, but I need to get a new one.

Pros: + Nice and slick BIOS.+ Lives up to the name of durability, I abused the absolute hell out of this thing when I first bought it and tried to add equipment to it.+

Cons: - If you have a large GPU (like mine), it can get a bit troublesome to the PCIx1 that is below the PCIx16 port.

Other Thoughts: I like the board, so far. Unfortunately, it seems the CPU_FAN and CPU_OPT headers have stopped working and my CPU fan no longer functions.. and just shy of a year of having it. As of now I'm powering my CPU fan with a standard SYS_FAN port, and using SpeedFan to calibrate it. I'll probably be ordering another board soon, since I doubt I can RMA it (I bent a USB3.0 port pin).

Rating: 1/5Terrible Board

Pros: None. The board has horrible BSOD problems with any memory or CPU configuration.

Cons: This board suffers from severe BSOD problems. I have tried multiple memory configurations and multiple CPUs. The board also fails to recognize drives on boot half of the time.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your GIGABYTE product. Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyteusa.com with the case number 108583 in the e-mail subject line. We will provide personalized service and analysis to help solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact number, and we will contact you.

For Windows Blue Screen of death, please check the following:

1. Check the CPU temperature in Bios to make sure it's within the CPU’s specification, normally it should be around 45-50C.

Rating: 1/5GA-Z87-D3HP

Cons: MoBo fails to complete. There is no hope for running more than 1 stick of memory. I updated, rebooted, did everything the manufacturer instructed, still no function in the end. Built 15 or so computers, this is by far the worse build to date, all do to this key component.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your comments. We apologize for your difficulty with your GIGABYTE product. Please contact us at newegg-support@gigabyteusa.com with the case number 08046 in the e-mail subject line. We will provide personalized service and analysis to help solve your issue ASAP. If the matter is urgent, please send us your contact number, and we will contact you.

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